A long overdue step
In what has been lauded as an “election year win” for Democrats, Senate Democrats on Sunday successfully pushed through their “Inflation Reduction Act,” ...
Straw Poll, July 31 – Aug. 6
This week's straw poll: How many mountains have you climbed so far this year? - This poll is not scientific, and its results represent only ...
Polio fears rise in NY amid possible spread
ALBANY — New York state health officials issued a more urgent call Thursday for unvaccinated children and adults to get inoculated against polio, citing new ...
‘Buy Nothing’ movement spreads in Mid-Hudson Valley
From wide-toothed combs to car seats and from red onions to car parts, there’s not much you can’t not buy in Ulster County. Gina Bravo of ...
Consolations of literature
To the editor: One wonders how Milton coped with his utter blindness. In Sonnet 19, when I consider how my light is spent, he offers a hint. In the sonnet, Milton ...
My take on the Ironman Task Force
Stefanik should resign
When being invaded isn’t invasive
I’ve never thought that Robert Frost’s phrase “fences make good neighbors” from his 1914 poem “Mending Wall” is insulting. Fences don’t have to come ...
A roadside proposal
Bring on the salads
What’s in Democrats’ big bill? Climate, health care, savings
WASHINGTON — Not as robust as the $4 trillion proposal President Joe Biden once envisioned to rebuild America’s public infrastructure and family support systems, ...



